It’s funny how wildly off base my assessments of important life skills were as a kid (a fellow nerd, to be sure!) A world of ‘alphas’ where soccer skills and st

It’s funny how wildly off base my assessments of important life skills were as a kid (a fellow nerd, to be sure!) A world of ‘alphas’ where soccer skills and strategic bullying defined the social order. If you had told me that spending hundreds of hours dinking around on TI calculators was the real secret to future success, it would have just sounded so random. It’s like finding out that your collection of bottle caps you hoarded as a kid is now immensely valuable and assured you a life of wealth and access. So as much as I share the sense of catharsis, it does feel tremendously random and would have confused the heck out of teenaged me. :)